| Date: 14 April 2011, 03:27
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Will there be any plot-twist that will stun you in the pages of this latest Cussler/Kemprecos tale featuring Kurt Austin? Nope. Did I enjoy it just as much anyway? Yup. The storyline follows the tried and true Cussler formula that was earlier virtually perfected long ago with the Dirk Pitt novels: begin the story long ago with an amazing event, and somehow manage to tie it together with events of today. Sure 'nuff, this latest tale does exactly that, and since they followed everything tried and true, I just knew I was in for a fun ride.
Now since I am NOT any kind of scientist or mathemetician, the explanations about the possibility of an actual shift in the magnetic poles of the planet certainly seemed plausible to me. If of course you understand that kind of science, well you may find some kind of glaring error, but I happily did not. Instead I found the science behind Polar Shift to be pretty convincing.
Did a WWII era scientist actually discover a way to shift the Poles using electromagnetic energy (at least I think that is what they used...)? He certainly seemed genuine to the military minds of Russia and Germany that they wanted him to develop a weapon for themselves. A daring escape saves Lazlo Kovacs life and before long, he finds himself in America and hopefully all his theorums lost for good, too dangerous to be left in the hands of the governments of ANY country. Unfortunately a few unsavory people come across these long lost theories and begin to run experiments which cause havoc on weather patterns and possible irreversible catastrophic damage to the earth. They also mistakenly believe that they can reverse the damage once it begins, but nobody apparently knows this for certain. The plans and the backstory as to why this corporation embarks on such a horrible plan are also quite interesting to the storyline. Lets just say if you dislike the so-called *Elites* in the world, you actually may root for the bad guys -- at least for part of the novel.
Anyway, the grand daughter of Lazlo Kovacs unknowingly is a pawn in the grand scheme of the featured bad guys in 'Polar Shift'. Does she know the antidote to the Theorums developed by Kovacs? If she does, she is completely unaware of them. Inject an additional side story involving the possible cloning of extinct Wooly Mammoths and you've got a novel worthy of Clive Cussler. I believe that Clive only comes up with the storylines for these books and that Paul Kemprecos actually writes the stories, and whether or not he actually does, the end results are almost always equal to most of the Dirk Pitt tales of the past 12 years or so...heck, Dirk actually makes an appearance in this book by the way. In short, if you have enjoyed the previous NUMA novels featuring Kurt Austin, add this one to your collection and you won't be disappointed.
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